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1. The 1863 Proclamation
of Amnesty and Reconstruction proposed

(A) A plan for Radical Reconstruction

(B) The Ten-Percent Plan

(C) The Fifty-Percent Plan

(D) Andrew Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction

2. Why did Congress
reject Louisiana’s new constitution in 1864?

(A) It was drafted according to the Ten-Percent
Plan

(B) It gave blacks the right to vote

(C) Congressmen believed it was too early to begin readmitting
states

(D) All of the above

3. The Wade-Davis
Bill stipulated that states could reenter the Union

(A) When 10 percent
of voters pledged allegiance

(B) When 50 percent
of voters pledged allegiance

(C) Only after ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment

(D) Only after ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment

4. Why did Lincoln
pocket-veto the Wade-Davis Bill?

(A) He did not want slaves to have the right to vote

(B) He thought it was too early to begin Reconstruction

(C) He thought the bill was too lenient on white southerners

(D) He thought it would ruin his chance for
reelection

5. The Radical Republicans

(A) Were only a minority group in Congress

(B) Wanted to punish the South for secession and the war

(C) Wanted to protect the civil and political rights of
blacks

(D) All of the above

6. The Freedmen’s
Bureau had the most success in

(A) Establishing schools for blacks

(B) Redistributing land to former slaves

(C) Distributing food and supplies to blacks and poor whites

(D) Safeguarding blacks’ civil liberties

7. The Compromise
of 1877 was
reached after

(A) Samuel J. Tilden conceded to Rutherford B. Hayes

(B) Congress passed the Electoral Count Act

(C) Congress agreed to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1875

(D) Congress agreed to repeal the Ku Klux Klan Act

8. All of the following
were components of Lincoln’s blueprint for Reconstruction except

(A) Readmission to the Union when 10 percent
of voters pledged their allegiance to the United States

(B) A promise to protect all private property, excluding slaves

(C) Black suffrage

(D) Full pardons for all white southerners, except high-ranking
military and government officials

9. What did William
Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 do?

(A) Emancipated all blacks whom his soldiers encountered in
the South

(B) Set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina specifically
for freed slaves

(C) Established the Freedmen’s Bureau

(D) Established martial law in Georgia according to the First
Reconstruction Act

10. The Thirteenth
Amendment

(A) Prohibited slavery

(B) Granted citizenship to all Americans regardless of
race

(C) Enfranchised all American men

(D) Prohibited presidents from serving more than two full terms

11. The Civil Rights
Act of 1866 extended
all of the following liberties to black Americans except

(A) The right to testify against whites

(B) The right to serve on juries

(C) The right to enter into legal contracts

(D) The right to vote

12. Which constitutional
amendment did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 most
closely resemble?

(A) The Twelfth Amendment

(B) The Thirteenth Amendment

(C) The Fourteenth Amendment

(D) The Fifteenth Amendment

13. What effect did
the 1866 Memphis
and New Orleans race riots and Andrew Johnson’s “Swing Around the
Circle” speeches have?

(A) Convinced northerners that racism could never be completely
eliminated

(B) Encouraged northerners to vote Democrat

(C) Encouraged northerners to vote Republican

(D) Divided the North between those who wanted harsher Reconstruction
and those who wanted to end Reconstruction

14. Which U.S. Supreme
Court decision(s) did the Fourteenth Amendment reverse?

(A) The Slaughterhouse Cases

(B) The Civil Rights Cases

(C) Dred Scott v. Sanford

(D) United States v. Cruikshank

15. Andrew Johnson
believed that

(A) Blacks should be given the right to vote

(B) Blacks should be citizens

(C) Southern society should be completely transformed

(D) None of the above

16. By 1880,
most southern blacks had found employment as

(A) Sharecroppers

(B) Artisans

(C) Landowners of small farms

(D) Wage laborers

17. Southern legislatures
passed the black codes in response to

(A) Depression of 1873

(B) The Civil Rights Act of 1866

(C) The Fourteenth Amendment

(D) The Civil Rights Act of 1875

18. Who were carpetbaggers?

(A) Northern whites who moved to the South
after the war

(B) White planter elites in the South

(C) Southern black politicians

(D) Northern Democrats who opposed Radical Reconstruction

19. Who were scalawags?

(A) Northern whites who moved to the South after the war

(B) White Unionists in the South

(C) Southern black politicians

(D) Northern Democrats who opposed Radical Reconstruction

20. The Ku Klux Klan
was founded in Tennessee after the passage of the

(A) Fourteenth Amendment

(B) Fifteenth Amendment

(C) Civil Rights Act of 1875

(D) Civil Rights Act of 1866

21. After the Civil
War, many former slaves celebrated their freedom by

(A) Searching for and reuniting with family members

(B) Pressing for education for their children

(C) Marrying

(D) All of the above

22. Why did most
southern blacks prefer sharecropping to wage labor after the Civil
War?

(A) Wages were too low to support their families

(B) They preferred the autonomy of farming
their own plots

(C) Jobs with wages were competitive, but sharecropping was
easy

(D) Not even whites wanted to be wage laborers

23. Why did southern
white landowners prefer the sharecropping system to wage labor after
the Civil War?